Proposes to better recreation infrastructure, public safety and satisfaction by improving the boat ramps at Gull Point and North Wickiup. Includes replacing existing ramp to provide safe boat launching facilities for boaters during a wide range of reservoir elevations and putting boarding floats on the new ramp at Gull Point, and providing additional parking and replacing existing ramps with one designed to provide safe boat launching facilities during a wide range of reservoir elevations at North Wickiup.

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Announces decision after the Need for Action, the Purpose of the Project, the interdisciplinary team analysis, and the public comment to salvage log some 2.86 million board feet on 218 acres of fire-killed timber, including white fir, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir. Includes ground-based logging, use of temporary roads, reforesting of desired tree species, and removing danger trees along commercial haul routes.

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Announces decision to implement salvage harvest to recover the economic value of approximately 100 MBF of blown down timber. Most of the down trees are ponderosa pine and will be harvested using tractor logging methods.

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Announces decision to implement 12 miles of hazard tree removal on main roads within the Davis Fire area, including selected major roads within and along the perimeter. Includes felling all dead trees over 6 inches in diameter, assessing other unstable trees, selling some of them as commercial timber, and undertaking noxious weed prevention measures during implementation.

Description:

5 pp. Map, appendix.
Hazard tree removal will occur on the following roads: 44, 46, 4660, 4669, 4600850, 62, 6220, and 6224, and is generally limited
to the high and moderate intensity burn area. Refer to the attached map (below) for a display of the road locations. Trees would
be removed along portions of approximately 12 miles of road.
Captured June 28, 2007.

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Friends of the Metolius proposed that the Forest Service analyze and implement this collaborative project as a demonstration of forest management methods, with the interest of educating the public about the need for, and outcomes of similar proposed management throughout ponderosa pine and mixed conifer habitat in the Metolius Basin. Includes establishing 8 small plots from 5 to 11 acres in which different types of vegetation management "treatment" would occur, including small and large tree removal, prescribed burning or mowing, all with the object of moving the forest stands toward sustainable old-growth conditions.

Proposes to take remedial action against ecosystem degradation of Hosmer lake, after it was withdrawn as a portion of the Cascade Lakes restoration environmental assessment. Includes construction of a new 11 vehicle parking area near the boat ramp access road, replacing the boat ramp toilet with one meeting ADA standards, implementing 3 dispersed camping zones on the Lake and reducing the number of camps from 13 to 8, providing international and interpretative signing at the parking areas, closing the northernmost island to human use for at least 5 years to determine effectiveness for nesting waterfowl, shore birds, and neotropical migrant birds, and seasonally closing the remaining two islands to mitigate damage to nesting eagles. Decision notice announces implementation of Alternative 4 of the project EA.

Description:

107 pp. Tables.
The Hosmer Lake project area lies along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range, about a mile east and
south of Elk Lake and about 35 miles southwest of Bend.
Captured May 22, 2007.

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Announces the decision to implement the proposed action, with a modification to add 6 acres of aspen enhancement. Includes prescribed underburning of 533 acres, salvaging of 407 acres of dead and
down lodgepole pine, commercial thinning of 41 acres of ponderosa and lodgepole pine, precommercial thinning of 308 acres,
tractor mowing of 36 acres, closing 11 miles of roads, and seed tree cutting/enhancing of about 10 acres of aspen. Also includes the development of a long term monitoring plan for prescribed underburning and tractor mowing
treatments within pumice grape fern (Botrychium pumicola) study plots, and monitoring of aspen
rejuvenation projects.

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Announces decision to implement Alternative 3 of project EA, developing and designating approximately 9 miles of non-motorized trail from the northern boundary of Sunriver to Benham Falls Day Use Area to Lava Lands Visitor Center.

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Announces decision to categorically exclude and proceed with project reducing hazardous fuel loadings and ladder fuels in the Crescent and Upper Deschutes Watershed. Includes small diameter thinning (3 inches or less), pile burning or utilization, and training of lower limbs on trees on approximately 640 acres.

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Proposes commercial thinning and fuels treatment to reduce bark beetle susceptibility and fuels on 9512 acres. Includes moving stands toward late old-growth structure without being susceptible to beetle infestation on approximately 20,110 acres, with about 883 acres of treatment in the wildland-urban interface.

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Proposes commercial thinning and fuels treatment to reduce bark beetle susceptibility and fuels on 9512 acres. Includes moving stands towards late old-growth structure without being susceptible to beetle infestations on approximately 20,110 acres, with about 883 acres of treatment in the wildland-urban interface.

Proposes to fall and remove live overstory trees excess to cavity nester habitat needs that are greater than or equal to 4 inches dbh and less than 21 inches dbh. Includes those with and without dwarf mistletoe, retaining approximately 3 trees per acre to provide future snags, and preserving green tree replacements outside and adjacent to proposed treatment units.

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Proposes to fall and remove live overstory trees excess to cavity nester habitat needs that are greater than equal to 4 inches dbh and less than 21 inches dbh. Includes those with and without dwarf mistletoe, retaining approximately 3 trees per acre to provide future snags, and providing green tree replacements outside and adjacent to proposed treatment units.

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Proposes to exchange the Lake Creek property, privately held by Metolius, LLC, for the Forest Service-owned Cliff and School properties. The Cliff property currently has an encroachment authorized by a special use permit held by The House on the Metolius. The School property contains church and school uses, and following the exchange, Metolius, LLC would donate it to the Black Butte School District.